To:DAVID WIJNKOOP

Written:Written in FrenchPublished:First published inPravdaNo. 21, January 21, 1934.

      Sent to Amsterdam.

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      Moscow,Volume 35,

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Cracow, January 12, 1914

DearComrade Wijnkoop,

Thankyou most cordially for your kind letter. I hope you have read in
the German Social-Democratic papers (VorwärtsandLeipziger
Volkszeitung) the articles of our opponents (for example,J. K.of the Rosa Luxemburg group, andZ. L., who
representsnogroup in Russia, inLeipziger
Volkszeitung). The German Social-Democratic press is boycotting us,
particularlyVorwärts, and onlyLeipziger Volkszeitunghas printedonearticle from us (signed by the editorial board ofSotsial-Demokrat, Central Organ of the Russian Social-Democratic
Labour
				Party[1]).

InBremer
Bürger-Zeitung[2]Radek writes about Russian affairs. Yet Radek
also representsnogroup whatever in Russia! It is ridiculous to
print articles by emigrants who represent nothing, and not accept articles
from the representatives of organisations which exist in Russia!

Andthe attitude of Kautsky—can anything be more idiotic? In relation
to all other countries he studies the history of the movement, criticises
documents, tries to understand thetrue senseof the differences,
the political significance of splits. In relation to Russia, history does
not exist for him. Today he repeats what he has heard from Rosa Luxemburg,
yesterday he repeated what he had heard from Trotsky, Ryazanov and other
writers who only representtheir own “pious wishes”, tomorrow he will begin to repeat what other
Russian students or emigrants are kind enough to tell him, and so on. While
inNeue Zeit(!!) only commonplaces, declamations, no facts, no
understanding of the essence of the questions on which we differ!! Pure
childishness!!

Weare being lectured on unity with the liquidators of our Party—an
absurdity. It is we who are bringing unity into being, by rallying the
workers of Russiaagainstthe liquidators of our Party. I attach a
document which we circulated to members of the International Socialist
Bureau. You will find therefactsandfigureswhich prove
that we are the ones who represent the unity of the Party (and the vast
majority of the workers) in Russiaagainst, groups of liquidators
who are without workers.

Unfortunatelyeven Pannekoek inBremer Bürger-Zeitungrefuses to understand that you have to print the articles of the two wings
of Social-Democracy in Russia, and not the articles of Radek who represents
only his own personal ignorance and fantasy, and whodoes not wishto provideprecise facts.

Onceagain I thank you, dear Comrade Wijnkoop, you personally and the
Executive Committee of the Social-Democratic Party, for your kind letter,
and please pass on my greetings to Comrade Gorter.

Ihopeyou will forgive my bad French.

Vl. Ulyanov(N. Lenin)

Wl.Uljanow.51. Ulica Lubomirskiego,Krakau(Cracovie).

[1]See“The Split in the Russian Social-Democratic Duma Group” (present
edition, Vol. 49, pp. 480–54).—Ed.

[2]BremerBürger-Zeitung—Social-Democratic daily published
from 1890 to 1919. Until 1916 it was under the influence of the Bremen Left
Social-Democrats, but later fell into the hands of the social-chauvinists.